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Festival Kurai x Gesa gathers leading and emerging electronic artists across two outdoor stages over three days. The programming blends immersive live sets, modular synthesis and DJ performances with curated production design and light textures that shift from late-afternoon warmth to nocturnal intensity. Expect layered soundscapes, rhythmic drive and communal dance energy, framed by careful sound engineering and stage dramaturgy. Free shuttles link festival stages and the late-night club programme.
Guided by the song of whales, Teatro de Lo Inestable crafts a polyphonic narrative around the tragic drift of 25 passengers aboard a cayuco seeking a better world. Inspired by a true story, the piece intertwines poetry and politics through dense text and a physical audiovisual set, where object manipulation and sound create an intimate, haunting atmosphere. The company’s ensemble work emphasizes collective memory and the human cost of migration.
In Spanish.
Philippe Macasdar, a leading figure of Geneva’s theatre scene, presents a creation shaped by a lifetime of curiosity and passion. Through storytelling, archival material, playful digressions and inhabited texts, he offers a vivid, sensitive traversal of Geneva, exploring its intellectual memory, its paradoxes and its discreet yet vast influence. The presentation investigates how personal narratives and cultural archives can reveal the city’s identity and resonance.
In French.
Jean-Quentin Haefliger, co-director of the International Museum of the Reformation in Geneva, brings curatorial expertise on Reformation-era artifacts and material culture.
This lecture examines hourglasses as both instruments and symbols, exploring major changes in Geneva’s horology through close study of an object specially removed from reserves. Haefliger investigates technological, social, cultural and religious dimensions of timekeeping during the Reformation period.
In French.
Founded in Geneva, STANE is an independent rock quartet that channels the spirit of ’70s rock through contemporary energy. Built around Stéphane Péclard’s songwriting, the band — Stéphane Péclard (vocals, guitar), Rolf Waeger (drums), Cosimo Manco (bass) and Teddy Huyghebaert (guitar) — blends classic riffs, driving grooves and catchy melodies into over fifteen originals crafted for live performance. On stage they aim to create a shared, suspended moment where raw energy and emotion fuse with music, inviting communal movement and intensity.
Apichatpong Weerasethakul’s haunting film follows Uncle Boonmee as supernatural visitations and tender memories lead him to confront mortality. Shot with languid long takes, luminous natural light and a patient, dreamlike rhythm, the film blends everyday intimacy with mythic strangeness. Palme d’Or winner at Cannes, it explores reincarnation, familial bonds and the porous boundary between life and death with quiet compassion, inviting reflection rather than offering answers.
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Photographer Florian Luthi’s Fantômes Météores is inspired by the 1954 wave of UFO sightings across France, especially along the Franco‑Swiss border. From one of these accounts he revisits childhood landscapes—mist‑shrouded forests, deserted villages and the Jura—and composes a photographic narrative where truth wavers and legends endure. The series uses long exposures, muted palettes and staged absence to probe memory, collective fear and the boundary between documentary and myth. A collaboration with Fondation Convergences.
Artist talk with Florian Luthi Thursday 27 August 2026, 18:30
In French
Dany Gignoux (photographer) and poet Georges Haldas present a compelling dialogue between documentary photography and lyrical prose. The exhibition brings together photographs and written fragments that register everyday life in Geneva’s cafés, combining on-the-spot reportage with memory-infused “prose inspirée.” Through intimate black-and-white images and spare, evocative texts the works transfigure mundane scenes into poetic testimony, revealing social undercurrents and human tenderness. Archival materials frame this historic encounter between two generations of cultural chroniclers.
Accrochage d’été brings together selected works by Andrea Gabutti, Etienne Krähnembühl, Laurent de Pury and Jean‑Patrice Rozand. The presentation highlights recent investigations in painting, sculpture and mixed media, juxtaposing material textures and sculptural line. Through compact compositions and attention to process, the artists explore perception, the limits of representation and the tactile qualities of surfaces. The selection emphasizes subtle dialogues between form, colour and spatial tension.
Chris Lovasoa Kauffmann presents a new body of work that explores architectural form and symbolic resonance through sculpture, painting and installation. Minimal geometries and textured surfaces negotiate scale and monumentality, while layered materials and subtle color shifts invite reflection on construction, memory and cultural lineage. The works balance rigorous formalism with tactile evidence of process, proposing an austere yet intimate meditation on how built forms shape perception and collective narratives.
Opening: Thursday 2 July, 18:00
The Miraculous Geneva is a group exhibition that brings together contemporary Geneva-based artists in tribute to the late artist Daniel Orson Ybarra. Featuring works by Stéphane Ducret and other renowned local artists, the exhibition celebrates the diversity and vitality of Geneva’s contemporary art scene through painting, sculpture, and multidisciplinary practices.
Ianne Kenfack Kitio continues her inquiry into representations of Black femininity and the construction of identity. In this photographic work, produced as a cyanotype, she treats the image as a space of transformation rather than a fixed depiction. The piece links material and concept: its blue evokes Ndop indigo textiles of the Grassfields and the artist’s Bamiléké heritage, while the cyanotype’s gradual emergence mirrors identity as an ongoing process of thresholds and metamorphosis.
Opening: 3 September, 18:00
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Geneva Classics
Visiting for the first time? A quick guide to the city’s top attractions.
Located in the heart of Geneva’s international district, the Portail des Nations is a space dedicated to dialogue, cooperation, and global issues. Through exhibitions, talks, and cultural events, it offers visitors an entry point into the major challenges shaping our world and Geneva’s role as a hub for international governance.
Nestled in the Geneva countryside, the Collection du Crest showcases a remarkable selection of modern and contemporary art. Through temporary exhibitions and its private collection, this unique venue offers an intimate encounter with artistic creation, in dialogue with the history and landscape of the estate.
Discover one of the world’s most remarkable libraries and museums, home to an exceptional collection of manuscripts, rare books, and historical documents spanning over 5,000 years of human history. Located in Cologny overlooking Lake Geneva, the Fondation Martin Bodmer offers a unique journey through literature, philosophy, religion, science, and the arts, bringing together some of humanity’s most significant written treasures.
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